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Name

Description

A distributed document store with a powerful search engine and in-built operational and analytical capabilities

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	25.30
Rank	#30	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#95	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2011

2010

Current release

Server: 7.0, July 2021; Mobile: 3, February 2022; Couchbase Capella, October 2021

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Couchbase Capella: a fully managed database-as-a-service that eliminates database management efforts and reduces cost

Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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RavenDB is easy to setup and secure. You can do it in a matter of minutes . Easy...
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Typical application scenarios

Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Key customers

Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Toyota, Capgemini, Vodafone, Medicaid, Asos, Nomura, RMS Automotive, MSNBC, Pluralsight,...
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Market metrics

Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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2 million+ downloads 1000+ customers including Fortune 500 large enterprises
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Licensing and pricing models

The Community Edition (CE) of Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile are available...
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RavenDB is available on-premise and in the cloud. RavenDB Cloud is available on AWS...
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